vettels car had software problems according to marko, that explains why there was not even one good lap, but without the problems you can calculate where vet would have ended up.. i think red bull improved a lot from testing and now melbourne, or they were bluffing the whole time

Are you saying that drivers are all equally good on all the tracks? Do you not dont feel that some drivers have tracks they are good on, and other tracks they are not so good on? Do you also not feel that growing up in the AUS racing fraternity, he might just have a bit more experience racing around Australian tracks?

@joshua-mesh I don’t think that makes a lot of difference. I think F1 drivers by and large are focused on the job of going as fast as they possibly can, regardless of the circuit. It’s an added bonus for Ricciardo but when he was in the car, wrestling with a surfeit of torque on a wet track, I don’t believe he thought about anything other than the next corner and his lap time.

Looks like Hulk had upper hand over perez during whole qualifying,regarding button and vettel i think their car not set up to their liking if u look at balance they just struggling to drive compared to team mates

All drivers found it difficult in the rain. I don’t understand the car not to their liking argument as almost every driver will never have the car to their liking. In Button’s case, he probably didn’t go out after Kimi’s accident thinking no one would improve.

vettels car had software problems according to marko, that explains why there was not even one good lap, but without the problems you can calculate where vet would have ended up.. i think red bull improved a lot from testing and now melbourne, or they were bluffing the whole time

Why Max? Take all the “toys” away and throw a little rain in the mix and SV is just a regular joe!
Good for Ricciardo even though i don’t like him either.
Dry qualy would’ve been nice. We still can’t see a clear pecking order on the wet.

It´s nice to se you guys defending SV for a change! I´m begining to like this season already!
Oh and BTW, I don´t buy that “software glitch” deal… they both have the same car! And Ricciardo managed to plop himself up there!

Apparently it was a software problem hurting Vettel’s performance. F1 machines are getting even closer to airplanes, I wonder when they will start talking about “air relevance” instead of “road relevance”…

Oh damn Vettel actually not making it to Q3… although that’s mostly because of Raikkonen crashing and bringing out the yellow flags. Still, his unrated teammate appeared a lot more comfortable and that’s quite alarming :/ Vettel better up his game.

And as @baron-2 said: Seb doesn’t suddenly forget how to drive especially if he has proven multiple times that he is good in rain. But seems some people’s hate make them forget the past rather quickly..

Would really love to see a few more logical comments but a few are just beyond..

Hamiltons last lap was poor. He was half a second off his best through S2. But then he have have been taking it a bit easy given everyone else’s incidents through there, and the fact Rosberg didn’t have another lap.

Considering Rosberg has done a lot of wet tyre testing, I expected him to be on pole this wet qualifying. I hope for Mercedes’ sake they just go for the best points and results instead of trying to orchestrate a particular result.

Macca wanted their new rookie to be like a new Hamilton. Kev did a grand job to get forth in his first quali in Australia. Incidentally, the rookie Hamilton back in 2007 got forth on the grid at his first race, also Australia. ;)